Review Summary

Gerard Vera's melodrama is the story of Alberto (Jordi Mollá), a young aeronautical engineer who leads an increasingly stressful double life, dividing his time between his wife and son and a handsome orthopedic surgeon with whom he is having an affair. While Pedro Almodóvar might have played Alberto's dilemma as farce, and any half-dozen French filmmakers might have made a wistful romantic comedy, Mr. Vera steers right down the middle of the melodramatic road. The movie is quiet, modest and sympathetic almost to a fault; its scenes of emotional discord, accompanied by a swooning, sniffling score, seem best suited to cable television. It's like a Lifetime movie about men. – A. O. Scott